Angela Merkel 3 – Martin Schulz 0

Winning three regional elections in 2017, Angela Merkel can feel good about her chances ton win the Federal Election in September.

There have been three regional elections in Germany this year and the results don’t bode well for Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, and now the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) ahead of September’s federal election. The latest two setbacks came just seven days apart, as Schulz’s party lost consecutive votes in the states of Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), despite leading the incumbent government. To make matters worse, the weeks leading up to the elections saw the Social Democrats quickly dropping in opinion polls in both states, with Schulz being almost invisible in both campaigns.